(19)
(11) EP 4 435 692 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
09.10.2024 Bulletin 2024/41

(43) Date of publication A2:
25.09.2024 Bulletin 2024/39

(21) Application number: 24194160.8

(22) Date of filing: 14.05.2018
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC): 
G06F 3/16(2006.01)
G06N 3/006(2023.01)
G06Q 10/02(2012.01)
G10L 13/00(2006.01)
 G10L 15/22(2006.01)
G06F 16/332(2019.01)
G06Q 10/0631(2023.01)
H04M 3/493(2006.01)
(52) Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC):
G06F 3/167; G10L 13/00; H04M 3/4936; H04M 2203/355; G06F 16/3329; G06N 3/006; G06Q 10/063114; G10L 2015/223; G10L 15/22; G06Q 10/02; Y02D 10/00
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AL AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MK MT NL NO PL PT RO RS SE SI SK SM TR

(30) Priority: 16.05.2017 US 201762506999 P
19.12.2017 US 201715847341

(62) Application number of the earlier application in accordance with Art. 76 EPC:
21188343.4 / 3923277
18727632.4 / 3613035

(71) Applicant: GOOGLE LLC
Mountain View CA 94043 (US)

(72) Inventors:
  • ADAN, Yariv
    Mountain View, 94043 (US)
  • VUSKOVIC, Vladimir
    Mountain View, 94043 (US)
  • BEHZADI, Behshad
    Mountain View, 94043 (US)

(74) Representative: Trichard, Louis 
Venner Shipley LLP 200 Aldersgate
London EC1A 4HD
London EC1A 4HD (GB)

   


(54) DELAYED RESPONSES BY COMPUTATIONAL ASSISTANT


(57) An example method includes receiving, by a computational assistant executing at one or more processors, a representation of an utterance spoken at a computing device; identifying, based on the utterance, a task to be performed by the computational assistant; responsive to determining, by the computational assistant, that complete performance of the task will take more than a threshold amount of time, outputting, for playback by one or more speakers operably connected to the computing device, synthesized voice data that informs a user of the computing device that complete performance of the task will not be immediate; and performing, by the computational assistant, the task.







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